Oerlikon, Switzerland, announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire Scoperta Inc., San Diego, an innovative developer of advanced materials via computational software.
Continue readingBritish hospital 3D prints custom medical models, reduces surgery time by hours
Stratasys, Minneapolis, announces that its PolyJet 3D printing technology is helping to improve life-changing maxillofacial surgeries at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, by 3D printing customized models for pre-surgical preparation, thus enabling a reduction of up to 93% in surgical planning time associated with standard anatomical models.
Continue readingBaker Furnace heavy-duty industrial oven pre-heats aluminum ingots
Baker Furnace, Brea, Calif., announces the shipment of a gas-fired batch oven for pre-heating large aluminum ingots that will be forged into aerospace parts at an aluminum forging company.
Continue readingLindberg/MPH ships aluminum melting and holding equipment for die casting
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., announces the shipment of an aluminum central melting furnace that holds 62,000 pounds of aluminum and has a melt rate of 6000 pounds per hour.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven steam-heated ovens have temperature uniformity of ±5°F at 240°F
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped two steam-heated batch ovens to a leading manufacturer of industrial products for curing a water-based adhesive applied to rolls of sandpaper.
Continue readingHybrid technology combines 3D printing, traditional grinding to produce ship propeller
The Port of Rotterdam announces that its Rotterdam Additive Manufacturing Lab (RamLab) is working with Autodesk, San Rafael, Calif., to build a large ship propeller by combining 3D printing with traditional milling and grinding.
Continue readingBraidy Industries to invest $1.3 billion to build aluminum rolling mill in Kentucky
Braidy Industries Inc., Ashland, Kentucky, announces that it will spend $1.3 billion to build an auto body sheet and aerospace plate aluminum rolling mill, the nation’s first greenfield aluminum rolling mill in over three decades.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Physical Metallurgy of Expanded Austenite
The microstructural feature responsible for the favorable technological properties resulting from low-temperature gaseous thermochemical treatment is a supersaturation of nitrogen and/or carbon in austenite. This is called expanded austenite.
Continue readingIpsen provides advanced equipment, comprehensive support to industries around the world
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped eight vacuum heat-treating systems to customers in Costa Rica, India, Germany, and the United States, where the equipment will be used to support the additive manufacturing, aerospace, medical, MIM, and tooling industries.
Continue readingHarper and Ferrite partner to expand solutions for industrial microwave heating
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., announces that it is partnering with Ferrite Microwave Technologies, Nashua, N.H., to utilize FMT’s high-power microwave heating technology to complement its product portfolio of traditional gas and electric fired furnaces.
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